Diarsia florida (F. Schmidt, 1859)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Noctuini → subtribe Noctuina → genus Diarsia → species Diarsia florida

Species name(s)

Diarsia florida (F. Schmidt, 1859) = Noctua florida Schmidt, 1859. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky*.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Forewing length

15—18 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

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May

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November

December

Larva lifespan

 					January 					February 					March 					April 					May 					June 					July 					August 					September 					October 					November 					December 			

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Sweden. [1].
Austria, Belgium, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova ?, Norway (mainland), Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Sweden, Estonia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Kaliningrad, South Ural (?). [3].
Areal - disjunctive in Europe - from Denmark to Italy. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing is 1.5-1.8 cm. Kind of like aDiarsia rubi, scoop plantaginaceae, but generally a little bigger / thicker, wider fenders, the front wing more color with purple rather than pink. [5].

General info about Imago

Habitats - the banks of ponds and marshes. [5].

Imago lifespan

Imago Diarsia florida can be found from June to July [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Basically - marsh marigold, and besides - other herbaceous plants. [5].

Larva lifespan

From August to May. [5].

Overwintering stage

Obviously, the caterpillar. [5].

Subspecies of Diarsia florida

Diarsia florida perturbata Hacker, 1987. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)